"When she got to the pub, she said the patient was unconscious on the floor. "He was struggling to breathe and I worried he was going to stop breathing and go into cardiac arrest," she said. "We were getting ready to do an ECG when he regained consciousness. He was friendly at first then suddenly switched. "He looked ready to fight the whole pub and made sexually aggressive comments to me."
""He looked ready to fight the whole pub and made sexually aggressive comments to me. He was throwing punches and I got hit in the face." The attacker left the pub but walked back in soon after. "It was like a horror film I just froze. He threatened to rape me and said he would dump my body in an alleyway. "That threat frightened me more than when he was throwing punches; it chilled me."
"The campaign comes as 53% of ambulance crews said they had been physically attacked while on duty in the last year, while 44% said they had been sexually harassed. London Ambulance Service (LAS) called the abuse shocking and said it was the first ambulance service in the country to set up a special unit to support colleagues to report crimes and work with police to pursue abusers."
A 31-year-old paramedic was punched, verbally abused and threatened with sexual assault while treating a patient in a pub after alcohol and drugs. The patient initially appeared unconscious and struggling to breathe, then regained consciousness and became aggressive, making sexually aggressive comments, throwing punches and issuing rape threats. The attacker later returned and the paramedic suffered a short breakdown; the attacker was jailed for eight months for beating and threatening an emergency worker. LAS reports high levels of assault and harassment among crews and says alcohol and drugs contribute to about 40% of incidents, creating a new support unit and campaign urging respect.
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